St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-07-26
FLOODS IN NEW ENGLAND.
The People of Massachusetts and the
Adjacent States Very Nearly
Drowned Out.
Washouts Reported in ALI Directions,
and Railway Traffic Almost Com
pletely Stopped.
Mountain Streams Swollen to the Size
Of Rivers, and Large Tracts of
Land Inundated.
The Loss Heavy, But Beyond the Power
Of Being Estimated at Present
.--0ther Casualties.

OGREENFIELD, Mass, July 25.-Never
before in its history has Miller's Falls
experienced such damage by water as
was OccasiOned by Sundays freshets.
Between the town and Erving. dis
tance of six miles, are twenty-five wash
outs and eleven landslides by actual
count. During Sundays violent rain
torrent of water came rushing down the
mountain road, just east of the Fitch
burg depot, gullying it badly. In
short time the flat was buried under
three feet of water. Just east of the
passenger station is the freight depot.
This the water totally undermined,
TEARING A CHASM
sixty feet wide and twelve feet deep
through the gravelly soil. Passing un-
derneath the side track it dropped
freight and coal cars into the chasm end
up. The torrent rushed down the steep
incline to the Siver 200 feet, tearing
gorge twenty feet deep and fifty feet
wide, undermining the coal shed and
shade trees in its passage. South OF
the Lake house is another gully ten feet
deep and fifteen feet wide. On
Sunday the Lake house was COM
pletely demolished by angry floods.
A portion of the south end of the build
ing is undermined. Sections of the
Fitchburg railroad yard tracks are under
mined in places quite badly. The high
way bridge at Northfield farms is
between Millers Falls and Ewing are
all gone, so that travel by teams is i'm
possible, on which account transfer of
passengers can't be made. The Ewing
highway passing through the woods near
the river on the flats is six feet
under water, and the culvert over the
ravine at the mouth of Miller's river is
washed out twenty-five feet deep. All
travel between Miller'S Falls and North
field is cut Off. A prominent railroad
man said this afternoon that if the rail-
road puts on its entire force OF workmen
it will
TAKE FULLY TWO WEEKS
before the road is anywhere near re-
paired. The sweeping away of the iron
railroad bridge below here this morning
further cOmplicates matters. A report
has Just reached here that stone
dam at Erving and the ErVlng.
mill dams have been washed away, but
it is not yet confirmed. A large number
of Boston passengers are delayed at Mill.
er's Fails, unable to get. through, and
are liable to remain several days unless
the water subsidies so that passage by
team can be made around the scene OF
the disaster. OF the twenty-five wash
outs mentioned above, either one is
large enough to engulf train, and it is
wonder that no fatalities
have resulted. There is general
blockade of traffic both sides of Erving.
About mile and half east of Aliller's
Falls station is waShOut under the
track thirty feet long and six feet deep.
A mile beyond this, at the bank wall,
the track is quilted distance of 100 feet
and forty feet deep. Between that point
and the spot where the bridge went
down this morning are twenty-five other
WashOutS ranging from ten to thirty
feet in width by four to twenty feet in
depth. Niell's highway bridges are
down and all the roads badly washed.
Harris mill dam. Goddard's dams,
Allen & Eben Golfers saw dam, in the
vicinity of Erving are all washed away.
Most of the damage on the railroad and
highway was caused by the swelling of
small mountain streams, which rushed
from the hillSides. mad, raging torrents.
A bridge near Alden's pond is washed
away and 200 feet OF the highway is
badly quilted.
NO TRAINS PASSED EAST
of Greenfield to-day. A waterspout
struck the highway between Greenfield
and Lake Pleasant Sunday, tearing
hole thirty feet long, four feet deep and
ten feet wide. The principal culverts
on the highway between Montague and
Montague City have been washed out,
seriously delaying travel, and all the
hill towns have suffered severely. AL
together these are the worst washouts
that Franklin county has eXperiencedin
many years, and singularly enough they
are all within a radius of six miles. No
mails or papers got through from the
East since Sunday morning. The
Erving sectiOnmen say they hope to get
the highways repaired sufficiently to
transfer the mails tomorrow. The
ticket Office here has CONFORMITY stopped
selling tickets to points east of this sta
ton. Heavy stock trains have blocked
portation. Tonight long traing of cat
tie, sheep and swine were transferred
East via the Connecticut river road and
Keen
A DAM CARRIED AWAY.
DOVER, N. H., July 25.-All rivers in
this part of the state are higher than
ever known before in the summer.
FreshetS in Lamprey river New Market,
this morning, carried away large pOr-
ton of the dam of the New Market Cot
ton mills, also the foundation of No.
Picker mills. The loss cannot now be
estimated. A dispatch from South Ber-
wick says that FIVE members of fire
engine company there, and horses haul
ing hand tub, en- route to fire Satur-
day night, were Frustrated by lightning.
The men were insensible for some time.
and one of them had his foot burned.
HfTrTTnN ncc
Boston, July 25.-A Globe special
from Great Darlington says that the
greatest damage by the storm was in the
rivers, the major portion of the flood
passing down the latter river, causing
great destruction ON the New York side.
HillsdaIe was the first, victim of the
overflow. Bridge after bridge was
cast from its foundation with force
that crushed staunch timbers and
left them dancing and plunging in
the eddieS until cast upon the
shore. The iron works of the Mallorys
at this point became target. The
foundry of the concern on the west side
of the Black Grocery river, however,
withstood the shock and managed to
hold together, yet it's foundation was
badly damaged, as was also a large
amount of valuable machinery and
stock. Half a dozen employees, who
worked bravely to save part
of the contents, had narrow escape
with their lives, they being submerged
almost to their necks at one time. A
big bridge spanned the stream at this
point in front of the foundry, and after
vigorously withstanding the force ar
rayed againstit began to crumble at its
eastern end, where the water surged
over and cut under the massive stone